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• The primary natural disaster areas were declared in the following counties: Bennett, Bon Homme, Butte, Charles Mix, Clay, Custer, Davison, Douglas, Fall River, Gregory, Haakon, Hanson, Hutchinson, Jackson, Lawrence, Lincoln, McCook, Meade, Pennington, Shannon, Todd, Tripp, Turner, Union and Yankton. The contiguous disaster areas are in the counties of Aurora, Brule, Dewey, Harding, Jones, Lake, Lyman, Mellette, Miner, Minnehaha, Perkins, Sanborn, Stanley and Ziebach.
• Sombke said the disaster declaration will help some farmers, but said they need more than additional loans. Congress needs to find a way to reinstate livestock disaster programs that expired last year, he said.
Impact of corn prices on food? Not what you think
CANDICE CHOI,AP Food Industry Writer
• NEW YORK (AP) -- Cornflakes won't necessarily be more expensive as a result of rising corn prices, but the milk you pour over them might be.
• A drought covering two-thirds of the country has damaged much of the country's corn crops and pushed grain prices to record levels, triggering fears that a spike in food prices will soon follow.
• But there are many factors that determine the price of goods on supermarket shelves. A diminished corn supply doesn't mean that all food prices will be affected the same way.
• In fact, you're more likely to see higher prices for milk and meat than corn on the cob. That's because the sweet corn that shoppers buy at a grocery store is grown differently and not as vulnerable to drought conditions. As for the corn that's used as grain feed for cows, however, farmers are paying more as the drought persists.
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